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Hi guys. I know it’s been sort of a long t…holy crap, I just looked, and it’s seriously been almost a year. That’s criminal.

Golly.

Well, anyway, after almost a year of no updates, I was inspired to write by a friend’s Facebook post. She’d been feeling bored by dancing and was wondering if it was time to take a break. I’ve seen this sort of thing a lot in my six years of dancing (Sunday was my lindyversary!), and I often see a lot of the same advice. None of it is bad advice, but it tends to be pretty one-note. Basically, almost all of it seems to revolve around ways to dance differently so it stops being boring. Like I said, it’s not bad advice, but it’s like answering every relationship question with tips on how to spice things up in the bedroom. So I wanted to write something that explored some of the other aspects of l’ennui hop, as well as offer some suggestions about how to approach it. Continue reading →